'All Quiet on the Western Front'

Can you believe we used to fight wars like that? That was just a little under 100 years ago. In a civilized land.

Horses? Clubs? Bayonets? Trenches?

How ineffective and inefficient!

Not that war today is anymore awesome and not that wars still aren't waged with such barbaric weapons as gas, chemicals, machetes and land mines. They are. What movies like this just reinforce time and again -- no matter what century -- is war, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.

Speaking of the trenches, how were they dug? Was war enacted and people from that country went as far east as they could and started digging? If they had used their resources for, say, fighting instead of digging trenches, would we look at this war differently?

And how do you remain a head of state during this travesty and think, "Hey! I think things are going pretty well!"? Clueless.